Kathie Lee on 'The Bachelorette' season premiere: 'This is a freak show!'

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May 24, 2017 / 2:56 PM GMT / Source: TODAY

By Kathie Lee & Hoda

The 13th season of “The Bachelorette” started this week, and the suitors for Rachel Lindsay, the first-ever African-American Bachelorette, included a man in a penguin suit, a guy with a ventriloquist’s dummy, and a “tickle monster” who tickled her. “He would be out first,” Hoda Kotb declares.